Mecanique Analytique: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) - Softcover

Lagrange, Joseph-Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108001750 ISBN 13: 9781108001755

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), one of the notable French mathematicians of the Revolutionary period, is remembered for his work in the fields of analysis, number theory and mechanics. Like Laplace and Legendre, Lagrange was assisted by d'Alembert, and it was on the recommendation of the latter and the urging of Frederick the Great himself that Lagrange succeeded Euler as the director of mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The two-volume Mécanique analytique was first published in 1788; the edition presented here is that of 1811–15, revised by the author before his death. In this work, claimed to be the most important on classical mechanics since Newton, Lagrange developed the law of virtual work, from which single principle the whole of solid and fluid mechanics can be derived.

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In the two-volume Mécanique analytique, sometimes claimed to be the most important book on classical mechanics since Newton, Lagrange developed the law of virtual work, from which single principle the whole of solid and fluid mechanics can be derived.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1108001750
• ISBN 13: 9781108001755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444